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January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels

ICv2 will now track young adult titles on the chart of the top 20 Kids graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for January 2023 (1/1/23-1/28/23) provided to ICv2.

The difference this makes is obvious: There are five YA titles on the chart.  Four are volumes of Alice Osman’s Heartstopper, which started as a webcomic and has been adapted as a Netflix series.  The other one is the first volume of Five Nights at Freddy’s, a graphic novel series based on Scott Cawthon’s horror-themed video games (which have also spun off a series of prose novels).

The January chart is different for another reason: There are only six Dav Pilkey volumes in the Top 20, which probably hasn’t happened since there were only six Dav Pilkey graphic novels in print.  That’s a big shift from December, when there were 14 Dog Man and Cat Kid titles on the chart (see “Pro: December 2022 – Top 20 Kids“), so it’s not due just to the YA books.  There’s just more of everything else: four volumes of Baby-Sitters Club, three of Wings of Fire, plus two more slice-of-life graphic novels, Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends, on the chart for the third month in a row, and Raina Telgemeier’s Guts.

What’s not different is that the chart is dominated by Graphix titles, with Sweet Valley Twins the only outlier. Graphix has been publishing YA titles since 2018, when it released Hey Kiddo; and they picked up Heartstopper in 2020 (see “Graphix to Publish ‘Heartstopper’“).

NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – January 2023 (1/1/23 – 1/28/23)

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

CAT KID COMIC CLUB: COLLABORATIONS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

2

BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 13: MARY ANNE’S BAD LUCK MYSTERY

CYNTHIA YUAN CHENG

GRAPHIX

3

BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER VOL. 6: KAREN’S BIRTHDAY

KATY FARINA

GRAPHIX

4

BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 12: JESSI’S SECRET LANGUAGE

CHAN CHAU

GRAPHIX

5

WINGS OF FIRE VOL. 1: THE DRAGONET PROPHECY

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

6

HEARTSTOPPER VOL. 1

ALICE OSEMAN

GRAPHIX

7

HEARTSTOPPER VOL. 2

ALICE OSEMAN

GRAPHIX

8

CAT KID COMIC CLUB: ON PURPOSE HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

9

WINGS OF FIRE VOL. 2: THE LOST HEIR

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

10

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S VOL. 1: FAZBEAR FRIGHTS

SCOTT CAWTHON

GRAPHIX

11

DOG MAN: MOTHERING HEIGHTS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

12

HEARTSTOPPER VOL. 3

ALICE OSEMAN

GRAPHIX

13

HEARTSTOPPER VOL. 4

ALICE OSEMAN

GRAPHIX

14

WINGS OF FIRE VOL. 3: THE HIDDEN KINGDOM

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

15

BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 11: GOOD-BYE STACEY, GOOD-BYE

GABRIELA EPSTEIN

GRAPHIX

16

DOG MAN: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

17

SWEET VALLEY TWINS: BEST FRIENDS

FRANCINE PASCAL

RH GRAPHIC

18

DOG MAN HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

19

DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

20

GUTS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of January 2023 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels

For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
January 2023 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more.  NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market.  The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales.  Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we’ve removed those titles from the ranking above.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the “BookScan Top 20 GN Index.”

Source: ICV2

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